FRHD 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Gerontology, Aarp

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3060
• Professor: Kimberly Wilson

Document Summary

Rise of political power of older adults. Experience and training needed to being these roles. Prevent all old peeps from dominating: lower voting age to 16 to get younger peeps involved. Core issues as defined by carp: focus on pesions, home care, end of life care, drug coverage, long term care. They do regular polls and use these polls to loby w the government: primarily ontario, conservative, higher income polls. Culture race and gender socioeconomic status sexuality ethnicity education disability. Just a reminder that diversity is a huge topic. Age and gender intersect and need to be considered together. Gender perspective is important when we talk about expectations, roles and norms. The life course continues to be gendered although in more subtle and indirect ways than in the past. Gender just women and men in this course. More older women women live longer. Gender revolution: birth control pill changed a lot of gender norms.